Leadership Quotations..

• Political will and leadership are more important than institutions.
  Jose Manuel Barroso # Politics, Leadership, Important Quotes
• The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
  Tony Blair # Leadership, Strong, Confidence Quotes
• It is unlikely that there will be any substantial progress toward a final settlement without active American leadership and participation.
  Wolf Blitzer # Leadership, America, World, Politics Quotes
• Don't make the mistake of trying to set out every day in this leadership campaign policies that will make us look ridiculous in five years' time.
  David Cameron # Mistakes, Leadership, Politics, Elections Quotes
• Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
  Dale Carnegie # Encouragement, Leadership Quotes
• I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.
  Steve Case # Learning, Management, Customers, Leadership, Success, Important Quotes
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
  Stephen Covey # Leadership, Quality, Management Quotes
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
  Stephen Covey # Management, Success, Leadership, Determined Quotes
• Business leaders cannot begin to foster a climate of positive order if their sole concern is making a profit. They must also have a vision that gives life meaning, that offers people hope for their own future and those of their children.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Business, Leadership, Profit, Life, Ethics Quotes
• It is impossible to survive as a leader in business without enjoying what one does. The job would become too stressful, the hours too long, and the temptation to spend more and more time on diversions too strong.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Leadership, Business, Enjoyment, Job, Stress Quotes
• The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Criticism, Leadership Quotes
• In a large organization it is frequently difficult for a leader to have an accurate sense f the company's affairs because reports are often afraid to be candid about problems.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Company, Difficult, Leadership, Fear, Problem Quotes
• Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings.
  Walt Disney # Encouragement, Quality, Leadership, Challenging, Courage, Risk Quotes
• Successful leaders don't start out asking, "What do I want to do?" They ask, "What needs to be done?" Then they ask, "Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?"
  Peter Drucker # Success, Leadership, Questions, Management Quotes
• Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.
  Peter Drucker # Belief, Good, Learning, Leadership, Company Quotes
• Different people in business take social leadership differently.
  Peter Drucker # Business, Society, Leadership Quotes
• Throughout human history, it was the super achievers -- and only the super achievers -- who knew when to say "No."
  Peter Drucker # Leadership, Achievement, Great Quotes
• The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"
  Peter Drucker # Important, Questions, Decisions, Leadership, Achievement Quotes
• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
  Larry Ellison # Technology, Leadership, Company Quotes
• It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."
  Larry Ellison # Innovative, Ambition, Leadership, Success, Idea Quotes
• Stalin was a guy like we are, not only that he considered himself a revolutionary and lived like one, but he was a character in the truest sense of the word ... We have finally to let out this psychological wreckage ... it is our and my darkest chapter, I know or better to say I suspect it, because I am extremely afraid of certain things that are inside of me.
  Joschka Fischer # Fear, Revolution, Leadership, Psychology, History Quotes
• If I wasn't master of my own company, I would start another.
  Henry Ford # Company, Leadership Quotes
• The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
  Bill Gates # Good, Creative, Leadership Quotes
• Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
  Andrew Grove # Leadership, Action, Influence Quotes
• My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognised these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth!
  Adolf Hitler # Feelings, Religion, Leadership, God, Truth, Christianity, Fighting Quotes
• The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
  Adolf Hitler # Art, Leadership, Attention, Society, Power, Smart, Strategy Quotes
• I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
  Lee Iacocca # Leadership, Employee, Success Quotes
• A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
  Carl Icahn # Great, Company, Media, Leadership, Organization Quotes
• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
  Steve Jobs # Innovative, Leadership Quotes
• Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
  Abdul Kalam # Education, Creative, Entrepreneur, Moral, Leadership Quotes
• If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
  Ingvar Kamprad # Leadership, Good, Employee, Company Quotes
• I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.
  Kenneth Lay # Leadership, Company, Serious, Employee, Opportunity, Attitude Quotes
• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
  Vince Lombardi # Leadership, Spiritual, Quality, Power, Inspirational Quotes
• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
  Vince Lombardi # Difficult, Leadership, Challenging, Achievement, Experience Quotes
• Leaders must demand results. But that's not the issue. Top management is not always realistic about the level of results demanded and how well those results can be delivered by those below.
  Chuck Martin # Leadership, Result Quotes
• Employees want to feel their leaders know where they' re going, since the employees have to follow that path.
  Chuck Martin # Employee, Leadership Quotes
• When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.
  Lakshmi Mittal # Leadership, Motivational Quotes
• The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
  Rupert Murdoch # Management, Leadership Quotes
• The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
  Rupert Murdoch # Leadership, Management, Responsibility, Employee Quotes
• When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.
  Nancy Pelosi # Global Warming, Environment, Leadership, Climate Change, Government, Influence Quotes
• The surest way for an executive to kill himself is to refuse to learn how, and when, and to whom to delegate work.
  James Cash Penney # Learning, Leadership, Organization Quotes
• Go outside the firm to a number of seminars on the topic - even if you're chairman of a 20$ billion company- and let everybody know you went, and took notes.
  Tom Peters # Leadership, Learning, Improvement Quotes
• Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
  Tom Peters # Encouragement, Leadership, Management Quotes
• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
  Colin Powell # Leadership, Solutions, Problems, Confidence, Failure Quotes
• Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
  Colin Powell # Leadership, Art, Achievement Quotes
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
  Colin Powell # Great, Leadership, Talk, Solutions, Understanding Quotes
• I don't think of power in terms of conquering people. I don't think of it as something to be imposed. That kind of power seldom lasts.
  Tony Robbins # Thinking, Leadership, Power Quotes
• A truly effective leader has to have a strong internal frame. He wouldn't be much of a leader if he spent all his time asking people what they thought of something before he took any action.
  Tony Robbins # Leadership, Strong, Questions, Action Quotes
• Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
  John Rockefeller # Leadership, Management, Good Quotes
• People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.
  Anita Roddick # Work, Leadership, Goals, Communication, Passion Quotes
• I see a military option a high-grade danger, ... Therefore I can certainly rule out that a German government under my leadership would take part in one.
  Gerhard Schroeder # War, Government, Negative, Leadership, Responsibility Quotes
• Under my leadership, this country will not be available for adventures.
  Gerhard Schroeder # Leadership, Confident, Strong, Politics Quotes
• I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
  Charles R. Schwab # Encouragement, Leadership, Best Quotes
• Corporate leaders must possess far-sighted vision, detailed action plans, macro-thinking, and a global outlook. To get ahead in the race, they must also possess a deep understanding of their own organization and that of their competitors.
  Li Ka Shing # Thinking, Leadership, Future, Planning, World, Competition Quotes
• People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.
  David Suzuki # Leaders, Power, Investing, Action, Environment, Ecology, Different, Thinking, Wrong Quotes
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
  Mother Teresa # Leadership, Ambition, Action, Confidence, Courage, Encouragement Quotes
• I always something of a leader in my neighborhood. Much the way it is today, people either liked me a lot, or they didn't like me at all.
  Donald Trump # Leadership Quotes
• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
  Desmond Tutu # Leadership, Nature Quotes
• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
  Sam Walton # Leadership, Belief, Achievement Quotes
• Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.
  Jack Welch # Leadership, Company, Religion Quotes
• What we are looking for are leaders at every level who can energize, excite and inspire rather than enervate, depress and control.
  Jack Welch # Leadership, Control, Inspirational Quotes
• I got my first taste of leadership from the scrappy, aggressive kids in the neighbourhood as they played endless games and sports.
  Jack Welch # Leadership Quotes
• Look, the worst thing a person does is fire somebody. Or lay somebody off. It's the most unpleasant moment of a leader's life. That's why people don't do it.
  Jack Welch # Leadership, Fired Quotes
• A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.
  Meg Whitman # Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Focus, Challenging, Competition, Business, Organization Quotes
• Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples- by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.
  Stuart Wilde # Encouragement, World, Leadership, Politics, Bad, Power, Dishonesty Quotes
• We are driving innovation to be leaders in areas such as advertising, music, broadband, and search. Consumers vote with their mouse every day and we never take their choices for granted.
  Jerry Yang # Innovative, Leadership, Customers, Ambition Quotes

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